On 02/27/2013 04:07 PM, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Otavio Salvador
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:57 PM, McClintock Matthew-B29882
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Bob Cochran <[email protected]> wrote:
The FSL Yocto layers reorg proposal is attached, can you please take a
look? Any comment and suggestion is welcome and appreciated.
Thanks Zhenhua. I have a few questions and comments about your slides.
*** Slide 2: "Move all FSL specific layers to totally open source, or as
much as possible"
I'm all for this. Will this include your PowerPC Linux Tree? I didn't see
mention of this in your slides. This can be found today on your public git,
but it hasn't been updated in months.
I assume there's lots of kernel activity (as can be witnessed on the
[email protected] list), so I'm assuming an internal Linux tree
is being patched often. It would be great to be able to see your Linux tree
patched as issues are being discussed & resolved on yocto & ozlabs mail
lists.
We work on the upstream tree and also release an SDK kernel tree
that's fully tested. The layers tend to use the latter since it
supports all features. Nothing stopping users from adding a version
using the upstream tree.
And from now on, what are the plans?
Same using SDK kernel release, I don't think the kernel team will ever
have everything upstreamed for an SDK release and supporting all
feature and bug fixes. Besides we will pick a kernel and test and fix
it so it will always fall out of sync. (e.g. latest kernel release - 1
release + fixes)
**** Slide 3: "FSL Layers maintained in git.am.freescale.net,
gitfrescale.com, and git.yoctoproject.org"
Is your goal to have these layers in sync? Today, I can find a meta-fsl-ppc
layer on yoctoproject and at git.freescale.com. However, they are not in
sync, and I have no idea why one is patched and one isn't.
They are somewhat in sync.
That's today. What about next week or next month? As Zhenhua develops
the revised Yocto layer strategy, I ask that he clarifies the policy on
how the same named tree on different servers will be maintained.
The ones on git.freescale.com are still
denzil based for the last SDK release. Ones on git.yoctoproject.org
are newer and include danny and master branches as well.
And what are the plans regarding the SDK?
Can we get a statement in the Yocto layers reorg doc on how each SDK
branch will be maintained between SDK releases? As a developer working
to get products out the door, will I view the patched SDK branch
(between releases) as a bug fixed SDK or as an experimental branch for
the next SDK release?
These should be much closer to the same going forward (ideally
anyways) if not identically esp. for the layers we control, however we
can't always get all fixes in the oe-core/poky for an SDK release. But
a lot of times we can get them into the branch for that release and
eventually a point release.
-M
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